MITROVIĆ: SCHMIDT'S DECISIONS - A MOCKERY OF THE RULE OF LAW

BANJA LUKA, April 28 /SRNA/ – The greatest post-war crisis in BiH has been caused by the joint actions of former Clinton-Biden-era ambassador Michael Murphy and Christian Schmidt, the illegitimate High Representative who was not appointed according to Annex 10 of the Dayton Agreement, but rather by the will of a few Western ambassadors in Sarajevo at Germany's proposal, claims legal expert Slavko Mitrović.

"Schmidt does not have the mandatory confirmation of the UN Security Council, but that doesn't stop him from behaving like a dictator and colonial governor of BiH. The stench left behind by Murphy still strongly intoxicates the delirious political Sarajevo," Mitrović wrote in a column for Glas Srpske. He emphasized that although the crisis was caused by Schmidt’s actions, supported by Murphy and other Western ambassadors, everyone in Sarajevo is now running away from that fact. "All that matters is to chant support in unison for the so-called `state institutions` in their prosecution of three Serb leaders—in reality, a prosecution of Republika Srpska," Mitrović added. He stated that the rule of law does not mean implementing Schmidt's decisions, because these are not laws of BiH. According to the Constitution of BiH, only the Parliamentary Assembly can adopt laws, and only within the competences granted to BiH by the Constitution. Mitrović argued that Schmidt's decisions are a mockery of the rule of law and a ridicule of BiH’s sovereignty as a UN member. "Domestic institutions such as the `Prosecutor's Office and Court of BiH,` as well as SIPA, have no constitutional basis for existence, as they were imposed by the will and force of the so-called international community, which rules BiH without any accountability through the High Representatives, the BiH Constitutional Court, and a coalition of three foreign and two Bosniak judges, alongside an extra-constitutional judiciary," said Mitrović. He noted that while various Muslim and Bosniak political parties take turns in power, their rhetoric remains the same: "aggression, ethnic cleansing, genocidal entity, genocide perpetrators, state parliament, state ministry, state property, state court, smaller entity, high representative, Bonn powers, abolish the name and Republika Srpska because it offends Bosniak feelings". "They go to bed delirious and wake up even more delirious. And so it goes, every day, for more than thirty years—since the day Alija Izetbegović said: `I will sacrifice peace for an independent BiH,`" Mitrović concluded.